Failure is my best friend. If I succeeded, it would be like dying. Maybe worse.

The object of art is not to reproduce reality, but to create a reality of the same intensity.

I've been fifty thousand times to the Louvre. I have copied everything in drawing, trying to understand.

In a burning building I would save a cat before a Rembrandt.

When I make my drawings... the path traced by my pencil on the sheet of paper is, to some extent, analogous to the gesture of a man groping his way in the darkness.

That's the terrible thing: the more one works on a picture, the more impossible it becomes to finish it.

It is impossible to do a thing the way I see it because the closer I get the more differently I see.

Artistically I am still a child with a whole life ahead of me to discover and create. I want something, but I won't know what it is until I succeed in doing it.

When you look at art made by other people, you see what you need to see in it.

The form is always the measure of the obsession.

The one thing that fills me with enthusiasm is to try, despite everything, to get nearer to those visions that seem so hard to express.

If you keep on saying things are going to be bad, you have a good chance of being a prophet.

Believe in yourself When you doEveryone will see and believe too

It's not until I hear songs that I've done, that I realize how much of an inspiration music from the '60s and '70s has been.

Actually, my parents were separated by the time I was about 2 years old.

I've had a lot of practice and wrong's what I do best.

Formal learning can teach you a great deal, but many of the essential skills in life are the ones you have to develop on your own.

I see not a step before me as I tread on another year;But I've left the Past in God's keeping,-the FutureHis mercy shall clear;And what looks dark in the distance may brighten as I draw near.

There's not enough bad taste! I LOVE bad taste! I live for bad taste! I am the spokesman for bad taste!

I don't know a lot about politics, but I know a lot about baseball.

The United States has been called the melting pot of the world. But it seems to me that the colored man either missed getting into the pot or he got melted down.